My brain is tired so simply feast your eyes on Schiaparelli’s 1941 velvet evening jacket reflecting the times in which she lived. As Frenchwomen were encouraged to grow vegetables during war, so she designed the stitches for a part of the story onto her trademark colour #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Just turned on the tv (in dread) for the news only to get this message - I fear this might be what you’d get if you looked inside Trump’s brain currently…

Just turned the tv on in dread to watch what’s happening in the news with Trump to get this’s message -I’m beginning to think this is what would happen if you scanned Trump’s brain currently….

Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! A tiny horse figurine carved from mammoth ivory about 40,000 years ago! Imagine the #IceAge artist at work, sitting by the warmth of a fire, creating what is the world’s oldest known figure of a horse! 📷 by me #Archaeology

🐾 For #caturday an exquisite Egyptian cat on a handle for a vessel, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 664–30 BC (!). 🏺 #Egypt 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #cat #art

The church of Borgund Stavkirke is one of the most beautiful in Norway 🇳🇴

George Marinko (American 1908 – 1989). Early Spring (1940, oil on canvas).

Timeline cleanse!

Easter bunny resting 🐰 A #Roman samian ware bowl depicting a rabbit eating a dandelion. Found in Eschenz/Switzerland. 📷 AATG, Daniel Steiner 🏺

Another amazing helmet…

Easter bunny using unorthodox transport to deliver eggs.

Fascinating world of #glass: Glass vessels from the 16th and early 17th century, found in a latrine in Ulm. Latrines were commonly used for waste disposal. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺 #archaeology

Ruth Hallensleben - Along the Bodensee at Mainau, Germany, 1961

Parrot feeling happy with his tray of fruits and nuts. But also eying that fly. Protein! From Georg Flegel, 1630, whose day is today.

Edvard Munch "The Seine" 1890

Springfield Hospital, once a Pauper & Lunatic Asylum, Wandsworth, London. Home to my husband’s ggrandfather, Hugh Gardiner-Hill & his family, a pioneer of humane treatment of patients & Superintendent, 1890s. Beautiful buildings now a strange mix of luxury apartments & modern mh unit #familyhistory

@arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social I now know he’s an eagle deity, 2,000 years old from the mountains of Northern Oman - I’d like to set him free from his cabinet ❤️

Reposting in honour of #internationalwomensday the extraordinary generations of women in my family ❤️

The surreal juxtaposition of Bluesky posts that fill me with complete despair, alongside posts about the most beautiful and fascinating things from history, art and nature are about the only way to survive this current shit show imo (plus the cute dogs and cats of course 🐶😻❤️)

The loss of skills such as this feels like the end of a thread of social history as much the craft itself. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The 17th century English writer and historian Thomas Fuller. ❤️

Solidarity Minnesota ❤️ miners wives at Pensioners Peace Vigil US airbase Greenham Common 1984/Minnesota Star Tribune photo 3 days ago

Shakespeare knew - a plague on both our houses - here and in the US ❤️ Ian McKellan

#hope sending love and light #minnesota ❤️

❤️ Minnesota

Time to read this again methinks….

Hello fountain pen hounds, can I introduce you to someone from my family’s history? This is W E Wiley - in the 1850’s he invented a better method of slitting gold pen nibs, thus reducing their cost, so more people could buy them, from a guinea to 5 shillings- he’s a bit of a hero of mine 🖋️ ❤️

As Remembrance Sunday approaches I notice I’m looking at them again as I go down the stairs…

The amazing brigade of knitters/crochet enthusiasts in the UK who produce what we call ‘Post box toppers’ are turning their craft into an Olympic sport here…..❤️

'The Reader.' (1885) Ferdinand Hodler was the star of late-19thC Swiss art. His respect for elderly men led him to use as sitters those who frequented the café near his Geneva home. It was a mutually beneficial arrangement: 'they confided in me, and I listened to them while they posed.'

‘May books never die’ ❤️ www.facebook.com/share/v/16Nt...

❤️ youtu.be/3AeefPqVZKA?...

We’re celebrating our relationship with our historic building and how we managed to save it, all those years ago (with a little help from our friends ❤️) so it continues its original purpose of supporting our local communities. Here’s to the next 10….

‘God knows what’s hiding in this world of little consequence Behind the tears inside the lies A thousand slowly dying sunsets God knows what’s hiding in those weak & drunken hearts.. People help the people’ Cherry Ghost ‘People help the People’ m.youtube.com/watch?v=9U5S... A song for our times ❤️

Happy Mothering Sunday. Here’s me on my Great Grandmother’s knee with my grandmother & my mother, on the right my mother sits on her Great Grandmother’s knee with her Grandmother & mother - my unbroken thread of mother’s love thru poverty, two wars , Depression & the Spanish Flu ❤️ #motheringsunday

Slava Ukraini ❤️

Slightly amazed to discover, I know not how, a book that belonged to Ralph Hart Tweddell, the inventor of the portable riveter, which had a big impact on ship building and other industries…’The Arts and Industry of All Nations’ 1860 quite a book and quite a man #engineers 💙 📚

Looking forward to starting this jigsaw from the Bodleian Library….🧩🧩💙📚

Post an old photo in your possession & say why you like it. This photo hangs on our landing, the Cambridge University Golf Blues in 1913. My husband’s gfather is 3rd from the left. He’s 22. What sense did they have of what was to come? On the back I recorded what happened to them all/1

Splendid works by Hungarian art nouveau mosaicist/glass artist Miksa Róth (early 1900s) www.facebook.com/rothmiksamoz...

How exactly do you live with 80 minutes of memory? This book is a thing of beauty…the Professor believes in the beauty of miscalculation for teaching you as much as getting it right ❤️#booksky 💙📚

Post an old photo in your possession and say what you like about it….this feels like that moment of stillness, just before the noise of the Great War. These unknown members of my family, gliding gracefully towards disaster #Birdsong #oldphotoalbum

It's incredible how such small books has had such a huge impact on literature & love of reading. I have always adored Beatrix Potter's tales. Which one is your favorite?

This little book, 169 years old, belonged to my great, great, great grandfather, George Purser, who signs it when he is 13 years old. His father, James, works as a Beadle at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, (900 years old in 2023) - there have been beadles at the hospital since the 1500’s. /1

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.

This year more than 20% of the enquiries we received were from people researching their family history. They've used our parish records, hospital admission and discharge registers, and nurse training records to track their ancestors #ArchivesAdventCalendar #Family #Geneaology

Post an old photo in your possession & say what you like about it….This little chap is unknown but part of my Birmingham family history. He lives on the mantelpiece, he’s so proud of his outfit. It was taken by HJ Whitlock, famous photographers of the Royal Family c1830’s #geneaology #oldphotoalbum

Here’s my Bobbin Robin he sings to me every morning for suet pellets ❤️